It was early morning, but it was as dark as night, and the sword flags on the city wall were torn crazily by the wind.
People outside the city entered the city one after another. People inside the city gathered in the streets and alleys, but they did not dare to speak loudly, so there was a kind of tranquility in the city.
Suddenly, the sound of hawking came from the street corner. Yangzhou Chaobao, which was just born yesterday, was now hawking again.
The difference is that today's Yangzhou Chaobao has only one theme: the army of mummies is coming soon.
The north gate of Yangzhou City has been opened, and fugitives should flee north as soon as possible. At the same time, the court newspaper is also recruiting strong laborers to join the Jinyi Guards on the city wall to resist the mummies.
Almost as soon as this morning report was distributed, the solemn atmosphere was broken.
Many people who fled from the Southern Wilderness came out of shacks, street corners, and ruined temples, packed their bags and prepared to embark on the road to escape again.
But some refugees did not move. A young man said to his father, "Dad, I won't leave."
The father who was packing the last bedding raised his head and became furious: "Why don't you leave? Are you going to die here!?"
"Death is better than living in fear all day long. Dad, I miss home. I don't want to live this kind of wandering life anymore, where I have one meal and no next meal." The young man said.
"Our family is gone!" the father roared, calmed down, and grabbed the young man, "Come on, your brother, your mother is dead, and I can't let you die too."
"What's the difference!" The young man broke away from his father, "They are all dead. What's the point of us living anymore? Is life worse than death?"
"Dad, let's go." The young man turned around, "I'm tired and don't want to run away anymore. I want them to pay the price."
"You!" the father said angrily, watching the young man's figure disappear at the corner of the street: "Stay! Just stay here, it will be just right if you die."
After that, he threw away his backpack and said, "They are all dead. Let's finish them off!"
"Ximen's house", people on the street corner are calling the demon-catching master who once sold his sword and spent the rest of his life lying in the thatch.
"What's wrong?" Ximen opened the bamboo hat covering his face, "What time of the day is this? What's the noise about? I won't let anyone sleep."
"Why don't you sleep? If it wasn't for the gloomy weather, the sun would have been beating down your butt." This man came over and pulled up Ximen's house.
"Hey, I heard that the army of mummies is coming to the city soon. Ximen family, what should we do, should we continue to escape?" the man asked.
The Ximen family threw away the bamboo hat and said, "I asked you if you can have some potential, why should you run away? Also, don't call me Ximen family, please call me Ximen Chuixue."
After hearing this name last time at Yu Sheng, the Ximen family thought it looked good, so they changed it to this name.
"If you run away, don't say you're sorry for my family, my name, or even that boy's trust in me." Ximenjia flicked his sword, "Let's go and kill the enemy."
"Wait a minute, the mummy hasn't arrived yet." Someone stopped him.
"If you hadn't told me earlier, I would have slept a little longer." Ximenjia was about to fall asleep again with his sword in his arms.
"But now the Jin Yiwei in the city recruits experts to kill the enemy together and take care of the food." The visitor said.
When the Ximen family heard this, they got up and left.
"Hey, what are you doing?" the visitor asked.
"Let's go eat." Ximen's family didn't look back. Since the refugees fled to this city, prices have risen sharply, and the little money Yu Sheng gave him was quickly spent.
"Hey, when you hear there's something to eat, you run faster. Wait for me." The person came after him.
The city was as dark as ink. If it weren't for the lights in the shops along the street, I would have been unable to see.
However, all the people woke up, and they were shouting in the streets. Some of them asked their relatives and friends to flee north, and some of them called their friends and family to come to answer the call.
Especially the aboriginal people in Yangzhou City, almost all young people have joined the battle. For them, their hometown is behind them and everything.
Upstairs in Ba Yong, Yu Sheng got up quietly. The two of them had a lot of trouble last night, and the city lord fell asleep at the fourth watch.
After cooking an exquisite breakfast and leaving it for the city lord, Yu Sheng stood on the Bayong Tower and enjoyed his portion alone, looking at the distance to the south.
As soon as he fell asleep, something was calling him faintly.
The city lord was still sleeping, and he did not tell him this feeling for the rest of his life. He put down the bowl and chopsticks and looked at the page of the book in his hand.
After yesterday's banquet, with the help of the maid of the city lord's palace and the Jin Yiwei who shouted "The King of the East Barren is the most beautiful in the world", the word "Water Realm" appeared on a page of Yu Sheng's book.
For the rest of my life, I couldn't figure it out. I could only put a page of the book in my arms, take off the oil-paper umbrella left by the mother, left the city lord's palace, and walked alone on the street.
The rain fell quickly, and the downpour seemed to submerge the entire city of Yangzhou.
The people around him held their heads and hurried past Yu Sheng. Many people took shelter from the rain under the eaves on both sides of the street, staring at the dark sky in a daze.
This weather is so abnormal. In the past, even the darkest sky would still have light, but now it is darker than night.
Under the illumination of the lights of the shops on both sides, Yu Sheng held an oil-paper umbrella and walked alone on the street, but his body was clean, which attracted people's attention.
The water fell into a river, but the river gave way before Yu Sheng's feet.
The people knew that the man in front of them was their only hope against the army of mummies.
Soon, very few people were seen on the road, but at the recruitment office under the stone statue of the city lord, many people were queuing up in the rain.
Zhou Jiufeng was busy among the crowd, and the guards around him worked hard to protect the lanterns from getting wet from the rain.
Yu Sheng smiled, opened his oil-paper umbrella, and headed south out of the city gate.
For the rest of his life, he likes rainy days, and the rain makes him friendly.
When you are in the rain, all the pores on your body are opened, greedily breathing the moisture of the rainy day, just like a fish breathing freely in the water.
More than that, it seems that wherever there is rain or water in the world, you can feel it for the rest of your life, but this feeling is a bit hazy.
When passing the stone bridge outside the south gate of the city, Yu Sheng stopped.
He leaned over and looked under the bridge. There was no sound under the bridge, and although he could not see his eyes, he could clearly feel countless fish swimming in the water due to his kindness to the rain.
He whistled softly, "Hu'er", and immediately there was a sound of water breaking, and countless fish jumped out of the water, breaking the silence of the water.
Yu Sheng looked back again and saw that the Yangzhou city wall was no longer visible.
He lit a lantern, trying to light up the way forward, but the moment the lantern was lit, a gust of wind blew by, causing the rain to go straight into the umbrella and put out the lantern.
"Hey", Yu Sheng was surprised. The rainwater obeyed his command and usually the sun would not hit him. How could an evil wind make them put out the lamp today?
I couldn't figure it out for the rest of my life, so I simply abandoned the lantern and moved forward with an oil-paper umbrella in black.
Fortunately, there was rain. With the help of rain, Yu Sheng tried to extend his body's perception. He could clearly "see" where there were pits and steps.
The water became a part of his body, and even after he immersed himself in it and kept trying, the feeling of the rest of his life extended longer and further.
With the "illumination" of the rain, Yu Sheng walked and walked, and encountered many monsters on the road. They fled north in a hurry, turning a blind eye to Yu Sheng.
Only a monster with a yellow silhouette stopped after seeing Yu Sheng heading south, blinking his big black eyes and looking up and down at Yu Sheng, looking so cute and adorable.
Yu Sheng was startled when he saw it, "Hey, isn't it running fast? Why are you here?"